# bleed
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English bleden, from Old English blēdan (“to bleed”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *blōþijaną (“to bleed”), from *blōþą (“blood”).
Cognate with Scots blede, bleid (“to bleed”), Saterland Frisian bläide (“to bleed”), West Frisian bliede (“to bleed”), Dutch bloeden (“to bleed”), Low German blöden (“to bleed”), German bluten (“to bleed”), Danish bløde (“to bleed”), Swedish blöda (“to bleed”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbliːd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːd

### Verb

bleed (third-person singular simple present bleeds, present participle bleeding, simple past and past participle bled)
* (intransitive, of a person, animal or body part) To shed blood through an injured blood vessel.
    If her nose bleeds, try to use ice.
* (transitive) To let or draw blood from.
** 1979, Octavia E. Butler, Kindred, Beacon Press (2024), page 239:"What did they die of?" I asked. "Fevers. The doctor came and bled them and purged them, but they still died." "He bled and purged babies?" "They were two and three. He said it would break the fever. And it did. But they ... they died anyway."
* (transitive) To take large amounts of money from.
* (transitive) To steadily lose (something vital).
    The company was bleeding talent.
* (intransitive, of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.
    Ink traps counteract bleeding.
** 2020, Eley Williams, The Liarʼs Dictionary, William Heinemann, page 201:The ink bled only a little; if one raised the index card to one’s eye, it was possible to see the microscopic wisps and flicks seep out from the intended lines and curves out into the paper’s grain.
* (transitive) To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
* (transitive) To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
    At low engine speeds, valves open to bleed some of the highly-compressed air from the later compressor stages, helping to prevent engine surging.
    High-pressure air bled from the APU is used to spin up the engines and run the APU generator and hydraulic pump, and can also be used to pressurise the cabin if necessary.
* (obsolete, transitive) To bleed on; to make bloody.
* (intransitive, copulative, figurative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.
    He was a devoted Vikings fan: he bled purple.
* To lose sap, gum, or juice.
    A tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.
* To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.
** 1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:For me the balm shall bleed.
* (phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.
    Antonym: feed
    Labialization bleeds palatalization.
* (publishing, advertising, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) extend to the edge of the page, without leaving any margin.
** 1998, Macmillan Dictionary of Marketing and Advertising, page 35:Full-page and double-page colour advertisements in the Sunday colour magazines usually bleed off the page' (or are 'bled to the margin'), […]
** 2004, Dorothy A. Bowles, Diane L. Borden, Creative Editing, page 361:Too, bleeding beyond margins provides editors with several picas of space for more layout.
* (finance, intransitive) To lose money.
    Most of the sectors are bleeding, particularly the resources sector.

#### Derived terms

* bebleed
* bleedable
* bleed dry
* bleeder
* bleed for
* bleed for someone
* bleeding edge
* bleeding heart
* bleed like a pig
* bleed like a stuck hog
* bleed like a stuck pig
* bleed out
* bleed red ink
* bleed the lizard
* bleed the monkey
* bleed white
* brain bleed
* counterbleed
* crossbleed start
* forbleed
* Heartbleed
* if it bleeds, it leads
* I'm bleeding
* macrobleed
* microbleed
* nosebleed
* outbleed
* overbleed
* rebleed
* we all bleed red

#### Related terms

* bless
* blessing
* blood
* bloody

#### Translations

Ainu: ケㇺヌ (kemnu)
American Sign Language: 4@Nose-PalmBackFingerAcross Wiggle 4@NearNeck-PalmBackFingerAcross
Arabic: نَزَفَ (nazafa)
Armenian: արյունահոսել (hy) (aryunahosel)
Aromanian: sãndzinedz, sãndzinedzu
Asturian: sangrar
Basque: odolustu
Bengali: রক্ত ঝরা (rokto jhora), রক্ত পড়া (rokto poṛa)
Bulgarian: тече кръв (teče krǎv)
Catalan: sagnar (ca)
Cherokee: ᎠᏔᏍᎩᎠ (atasgia)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 流血 (lau$^4$ hyut$^3$)
Mandarin: 出血 (zh) (chūxiě), 流血 (zh) (liúxuè, liúxiě), 放血 (zh) (fàngxuè)
Czech: krvácet (cs) impf
Danish: bløde (da)
Dutch: bloeden (nl)
Egyptian: (znf)
Esperanto: sangi
Faroese: bløða
Finnish: vuotaa verta
French: saigner (fr)
Friulian: sanganâ
Galician: sangrar (gl)
Georgian: სისხლის დენა (sisxlis dena), სისხლდენა (sisxldena)
German: bluten (de)
Greek: αιμορραγώ (el) (aimorragó), ματώνω (el) (matóno)
Haitian Creole: senyen
Hebrew: דִּימֵּם (dimem)
Hindi: रक्तस्राव (raktasrāv)
Hungarian: vérzik (hu)
Icelandic: (impersonal) blæða
Ido: sangifar (io)
Indonesian: berdarah (id), mengeluarkan darah, mengucurkan darah, mengalirkan darah
Irish: cuir fuil
Italian: sanguinare (it)
Japanese: 出血する (ja) (しゅっけつする, shukketsu suru), 血を流す (ja) (ちをながす, chi o nagasu)
Khmer: ចេញឈាម (jeuñ chīəum)
Korean: 피를 흘리다 (pireul heullida)
Kyrgyz: каноо (kanoo)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: sanguinem mittō, sanguinō
Latvian: asiņot (lv)
Lithuanian: kraujuoti (lt)
Malayalam: ചോരയൊലിക്കുക (cōrayolikkuka)
Maori: toto, tatao (refers to the nose only)
Mongolian: цус алдах (cus aldax), цус гоожих (cus goožix)
Nepali: रक्तस्राव (raktasrāv)
Norman: sangni (Jersey)
North Frisian:
Föhr-Amrum: bled
Mooring: blädje
Norwegian: blø
Occitan: sagnar (oc)
Old French: saingnier
Old Norse: blǿða, blœða
Oromo: dhiiguu
Persian: خون آمدن (xun âmadan)
Polish: krwawić (pl)
Portuguese: sangrar (pt), deitar sangue
Romanian: sângera (ro)
Russian: кровоточи́ть (ru) (krovotočítʹ) (seldom used, име́ть кровотече́ние (imétʹ krovotečénije), идёт кровь (idjót krovʹ)), истека́ть кро́вью (ru) (istekátʹ króvʹju)
Sardinian: sambenàre, sambenàri, sanguinai
Scottish Gaelic: leig fuil, (nose) leum
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: крва́рити
Roman: krváriti (sh)
Sicilian: sanguniari (scn), sanguinari (scn)
Slovak: krvácať impf
Slovene: krvaveti (sl)
Somali: dhiigid
Spanish: sangrar (es)
Sranan Tongo: brudu
Swahili: -vuja damu
Swedish: blöda (sv)
Tagalog: dumugo
Tausug: dugu
Thai: ตกเลือด (dtòk lêuat)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: kanamak (tr) [-ar]
Ukrainian: кровоточи́ти (krovotočýty), крива́вити (kryvávyty)
Venetan: sanguenar
Vietnamese: chảy máu (vi), xuất huyết
Volapük: bludön (vo)
Walloon: sonner (wa)
Welsh: gwaedu (cy)
West Frisian: bliede
White Hmong: los tshav
Zhuang: ok lwed, lae lwed :

### Noun

bleed (countable and uncountable, plural bleeds)
* An incident of bleeding, as in haemophilia.
* (aviation, usually in the plural) A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
    When taking off at high altitude or at near-maximum weight, the bleeds have to be turned off temporarily, as they decrease engine power somewhat.
* (printing) A narrow edge around a page layout, to be printed but cut off afterwards (added to allow for slight misalignment, especially with pictures that should run to the edge of the finished sheet).
* (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
* The removal of air bubbles from a pipe containing other fluids.
* (uncountable, roleplaying games) The phenomenon of in-character feelings affecting a player's feelings or actions outside of the game.

#### Derived terms

* bench bleed
* bleed air
* bleed edge
* bleed-edge
* bleed-sheet
* bleed-through
* nose bleed

#### Translations
### References

* “bleed”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
* “bleed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Lebed, Bedel, debel, beled, deleb, bedel

## East Central German
### Etymology

From Middle High German blode, from Old High German blōdi, from Proto-Germanic *blauþijaz, *blauþaz (“weak, soft, timid”). Cognate with German blöd.

### Adjective

bleed
* (Erzgebirgisch) stupid, dim-witted

### References

* 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24:

## North Frisian
### Alternative forms

* blees (Mooring)
* Bleer (Sylt)

### Etymology

From Old Frisian bled, from Proto-West Germanic *blad.

### Noun

bleed n (plural bleeden) (Föhr-Amrum)
* leaf
* sheet, page
* newspaper

## Plautdietsch
### Etymology

From Middle Low German blōde, from Old Saxon *blōth, from Proto-Germanic *blauþuz.

### Adjective

bleed
* shy, coy
* modest
* withdrawn
* timid, reticent, reluctant

#### Derived terms

* Bleedheit